2019, Vol. 20, No. 3 (78) ISSN 2451-1617 The Contribution of the Second Generation of Great Emigration and the Polish Bulletin to the Validation of Polish Culture and Politics in the West Iwona H. Pugacewicz University of Warsaw
[email protected] ORCID: 0000-0002-2086-7133 ABSTRACT The article shows the contribution of the second and third generations of the Great Emigration called Batignolles in maintaining and promoting the Polish community and its culture in France and in Europe. Scientifi c objective: Presentation, creation, evolution and analysis of the content of the most prestigious, published in French, Bulletin polonais littéraire, scientifi que et artistique and the activities of its editors. Research methods: Referring to the methods of press studies and analysis of historical sources, it presents the importance of the journal in maintaining the Polish identity. Results and conclusions: It presents the importance of the magazine, shunned by politics, in the building of the strength and prestige of the conservative-patriotic group on the eve of independence in the face of other ephemeral journalistic ventures. Cognitive value: It shows its role as a chronicler and at the same time a representative of Polish moods at the Seine. KEY WORDS Batignolles, Polish Bulleting, journal, emigration, culture 266 Iwona H. Pugacewicz • The Contribution of the Second Generation of Great Emigration… n Western Europe, the group of the most important emigrant institutions guarding the Ipreservation of the national identity of Poles in exile should include the existing Polish Library in Paris, established in 1838, and the so-called Batignolles school (1842), together with its subordinate library, open to all emigration (Pugacewicz, 2015, pp.